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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 30/12/2025 12:32 pm, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > On 29/12/25 20:45, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 29/12/2025 11:05 am, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>> On 28/12/25 23:46, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:46:54 +1100, Daniel70   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Steve and Peter, are you two in Australia, 'cause that's the   
   >>>>> sort of Temps we've had for Christmas??   
   >>>>   
   >>>> South Africa in my case, I believe Peter is in Queensland.   
   >>>   
   >>> Further south than that. We're just getting cold winds.   
   >>> Queensland is getting floods. But no doubt we'lll all soon go   
   >>> back to temperatures in the high 30s.   
   >>>   
   >> I'm on the old Hume Highway, just south of Seymour.   
   >   
   > Tallarook?   
      
   Me .... Broadford, so a bit further away!!   
      
   > That's a coincidence. I grew up in Seymour. But I moved to Newcastle   
   > 57 years ago,   
      
   Why??   
      
   > so I'm starting to lose my Victorian accent.   
      
   Why??   
      
   > I remember the old Hume Highway. Back in the 1950s it took four hours   
   > to drive from Seymour to Melbourne.   
      
   Four Hours!! You've got to be joking!!   
      
   > Now it's about one hour.   
      
   One hour .... on the right afternoon!! The Government MUST surely be   
   looking at adding another lane each way .... or two!!   
      
   > And, in fact, I can now drive from Newcastle to the centre of   
   > Melbourne without ever leaving a freeway. (Except for meal breaks, of   
   > course. And I prefer to do it over two days, to avoid dropping to   
   > sleep at the wheel.)   
   >   
   Yeap.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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